Larson being a man who looks like this, ->) is one of the things that makes this series simultaneously funny and weird to wrap your head around.

He's a totally decent guy who can kick anyone's butt in a sword fight. Aspiring to be a princess wasn't his choice it was thrust on him by his mother, perhaps as a way to console herself about having 22 sons and no daughters. Basil wouldn't like you to think about him the way you are probably thinking about him right now. Primarily a TV writer before he started writing this series, Larson describes himself as being to his wife and daughters what Princess Cadet Basil (a boy) is to the other members of Leatherwolf Company. This is a thing, and this guy is one of the big names in the movement. What I'm saying is, it's Hogwarts as re-imagined by a brony - a word which here means 'a grown, heterosexual man who is totally into My Little Pony.' I'm serious. The teachers include a princess who was cursed into the form of a goat, a daft biddy who constantly confides in a rooster (not the talking kind), and a swarm of Fairy Drillsergeants. The courses of study include poise and manners, riddles, survival in an enchanted forest, and how to escape from a booby-trapped castle. Their training has to be tough, because it's life or death out there every year, a couple kingdoms fall to the rising power of evil. It's a really exacting career path only a small number of each year's new recruits makes it all the way to being a Princess or Knight of the Shield, tasked with defending the realm from dragons and witches. But this school trains not witches and wizards, but princesses and knights. Yeah, so it's sort of another story about a whimsical, magical school, featuring a student who is more or less the 'chosen one,' marked by a prophecy to defeat a great evil. In this second installment in the Pennyroyal Academy series, a princess cadet named Evie - who, a year ago, didn't even have a name, and had no memory of living among humans - makes further strides toward becoming the Warrior Princess destined to save a land full of fairy tale kingdoms from a plague of witches.

The pennyroyal academy series